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Steve Friess is a 2011-12 recipient of the prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he will be studying the impact of the rapid expansion of Vegas-style gaming on Asia. He's a podcaster, author and Vegas-based freelance journalist who writes regularly for USA Today, The New York Times, Newsweek and many others. His column, "The Strip Sense" appears every Thursday in the Las Vegas Weekly. His books include "Gay Vegas" from Huntington Press and Knopf Mapguides' "Las Vegas."Friess co-hosts the weekly celebrity interview podcast The Strip Podcast "The Strip" with his husband, Miles Smith, the executive producer at KSNV-TV, Channel 3. For four years, Steve also co-hosted The Petcast with Las Vegas Sun education scribe Emily Richmond.

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Thursday, April 5, 2007

We are going to attempt to document the overuse -- and misuse -- of the What Happens Here Stays Here (WHHSH) slogan starting now. Any and all of you, join the party. Every time you see a lame use of it wherever the offenders may lurk, email us or post a response on this blog.

Today's is especially shameful because it's in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which should know better and by and large is not responsible for the irksome abuse of a very smart advertising slogan.

Hey! Thanks for this. But you're right - I'm looking for overuse of the slogan as it pertains to Vegas, I guess, since as Miles noted in the show last night it's been used and overused by every single entity everywhere.

THE STRIP FINALE

Below are links to the final episodes and last week of special editions of The Strip Podcast. Right-click on any of these to save and hear at your leisure. Otherwise, click on them and they should play. Enjoy, and thanks for the wonderful years.